When reporters visited the elderly woman in a retirement home in Neumuenster earlier this year, she only said “you will hear nothing from me,” according to the newspaper.

News that Helma M.'s case was dropped came as the oft-delayed trial of former SS medic Hubert Zafke — who served at Auschwitz — opened in northeastern Germany's Neubrandenburg state court.

There are questions in that case, too, about whether the 95-year-old is fit enough for the proceedings to continue.

Germany in recent years has put a number of aging suspects on trial for alleged Nazi crimes, following a precedent set by the conviction of former U.S. auto worker John Demjanjuk, who worked as a guard at the Sobibor death camp.